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Julian Assange claims he had been warned by Australian intelligence of ‘dirty tricks’ from those out to discredit him

The founder of the WikiLeaks website claimed yesterday that he had been warned
by Australian intelligence of “dirty tricks” from those out to discredit
him, blaming the Pentagon for a false rape charge levelled at him over the
weekend.

Senior US officials dismissed the allegations made by Julian Assange, the
founder of the whistle-blower website, even as he responded with a claim
that the bizarre and short-lived rape case was precisely the kind of smear
tactic that he had been told to expect.

Mr Assange, who is Australian, said that he had no direct evidence of an
intelligence operation against